Patents by Inventor Frank J. Derose

Frank J. Derose has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Method of clustering multi-dimensional related data in a computer database by combining the two verticles of a graph connected by an edge having the highest score
    Patent number: 5706503
    Abstract: A method of clustering multi-dimensional related data performed by identifying features from a collection of data, each of said features being represented by a vertex, selecting pairs of features that it is desirable to cluster together, connecting the pair of vertices representing every selected pair of features by an edge, assigning a score to every edge according to a predetermined formula, selecting an edge having the highest score, creating a new vertex by merging the vertices connected by the selected edge, creating new edges between the new vertex and the vertices previously connected to the merged vertices, and repeating this procedure until every edge has a predetermined score.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 1994
    Date of Patent: January 6, 1998
    Inventors: Richard F. Poppen, Brian E. Smartt, Linnea A. Dunn, Frank J. Derose